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Oracle has introduced the first stable release of Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8 (UEK R8), a variant of the Linux kernel developed for use in Oracle Linux as an alternative to the standard package with a kernel from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The kernel is available only for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. The source code of the kernel, including separate patches, has been published in a public Git repository […]
The release of Fedora Linux 42 distribution has been announced. The products prepared for download include Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, Fedora Server, Fedora IoT, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Cloud Base, Fedora IoT Edition, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, and live images provided in the form of spins with custom environments Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon, LXDE, Phosh, Miracle, LXQt, Budgie, Sway, and Cosmic. The builds are formed for […]
The release of Manjaro Linux 25.0, based on Arch Linux and aimed at beginner users, has been published. The distribution is notable for its simplified and user-friendly installation process, automatic hardware detection, and installation of necessary drivers. Manjaro is available as live images with graphical environments KDE (4.5 GB and 3.7 GB), GNOME (4.3 GB and 3.1 […]
The Linux kernel mailing list has presented the sixth version of patches implementing the Kexec HandOver (KHO) mechanism, developed by engineers from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. The patches have already been accepted into the mm-everything branch, which accumulates changes for the upcoming kernel 6.16 branch related to memory management. Based on Kexec HandOver, Google is developing the Live Update Orchestrator (LUO) subsystem, […]
The release of the T2 SDE 25.4 meta-distribution has been published, providing an environment for creating custom distributions, cross-compiling, and keeping package versions up to date. Among the popular distributions built on the T2 system, Puppy Linux can be noted. The project offers 25 bootable ISO images with a minimal graphical environment in versions with Musl, uClibc, and Glibc libraries. Builds for current architectures have been prepared with […]
The release of the web browser qutebrowser 3.5.0 has been published, providing a minimal graphical interface that does not distract from content viewing and a navigation system in the style of the Vim text editor, built entirely on keyboard shortcuts. The code is written in Python using PyQt and QtWebEngine. The source code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. The use of Python does not affect performance, as rendering and content parsing […]
The release of the OpenWrt 24.10.1 distribution has been presented, developed for networking devices such as routers, switches, and access points. OpenWrt supports 2779 devices and offers a build system that simplifies cross-compiling and creating custom builds. Such builds allow ready-made firmware to be created with the desired set of pre-installed packages, optimized for specific tasks. Ready builds have been published for 39 target platforms. Key changes include […]
The Khronos consortium, which develops graphic standards, has recognized the full compatibility of the open driver PanVK with the Vulkan 1.1 specification. PanVK provides support for the Vulkan graphics API on ARM GPU devices based on the V10 architecture, such as Mali-G610 and Mali-G310. The driver successfully passed all tests from the CTS (Khronos Conformance Test Suite) and is included in the list of certified drivers. Receiving […]
The release of the lightweight MX Linux 23.6 distribution has been published, created through the collaborative efforts of communities formed around the antiX and MEPIS projects. The release is based on the Debian package base with enhancements from the antiX project and packages from its own repository. The distribution uses the sysVinit initialization system and its own tools for system configuration and deployment. Boot options for 32- and 64-bit are available […]
The developers of the postmarketOS project, which is developing a Linux distribution for smartphones based on the Alpine Linux package base, the standard C library Musl, and the BusyBox utility set, announced the addition of support for the COSMIC desktop environment, developed in Rust. Ready-made postmarketOS builds with COSMIC are available for x86_64 systems, as well as a separate version optimized for Thinkpad X13s laptops (customized versions can be made upon request […]
Members of the CA/Browser Forum, a platform for coordinating the cooperation between browser manufacturers and certificate authorities, voted to reduce the maximum lifespan of TLS certificates. The maximum validity of TLS certificates will be shortened from 398 to 47 days, unless the CA/Browser Forum revisits this decision in the future. In addition to the validity period of certificates, it has been decided to significantly shorten the timelines for reusing validation data […]
Corrective updates for the Perl interpreters 5.40.2 and 5.38.4 have been released, fixing a vulnerability (CVE-2024-56406) that leads to a buffer overflow when transliterating specially formatted non-ASCII characters using the "tr/.../..." operator. The possibility of exploiting this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code in the system cannot be ruled out. The issue has been present in stable Perl releases since 2021 and affects the 5.34, 5.36, […]